Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!nsc!pyramid!shakespyr!amirosh
From: amirosh@shakespyr.Pyramid.COM (Alex Miroshnichenko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: why can't you exportfs /dir and /dir/sub?
Keywords: export exportfs mount NFS subdirectories
Message-ID: <159281@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 00:37:15 GMT
References: <felps.676828858@convex.convex.com>
Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
Reply-To: amirosh@shakespyr.Pyramid.COM (Alex Miroshnichenko)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pyramid Technologies, Mt. View, California.
Lines: 15

In article <felps.676828858@convex.convex.com>, felps@convex.com (Robert
Felps) writes:
|> 
|> Why can't this be done?
|> 
|> EXPORTFS(8)        NFS Programmer's Reference        EXPORTFS(8)
|> 
|> WARNINGS
|>      You cannot export a directory that is either a parent- or a
|>      sub-directory of one that is currently exported and within
|>      the same filesystem. It would be illegal, for example, to
|>      export both /usr and /usr/local if both directories resided
|>      in the same disk partition.

exportfs is performed on a filesystem, not on a directory tree.